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Kieran Setiya

Philosophy as a Guide to Life

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Year in Review 2025

An exercise in vanity since 2022: I post links to my public writing from the previous year, along with some favourite Substack posts and a preview of what’s to come.

As I mentioned two weeks back, the last twelve months were quiet ones, bu...

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Tractatus Logico-Calceatus

1. The world is the totality of socks, not shoes.

1.1. “I remember one time when Wittgenstein was mentioning Nietzsche’s remark: ‘We—i. e., philosophers—want to be learnt by heart.’ … he said that he could understand why certain ancient p...

5 months ago
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Reader's Digest: Best Books

I did more reading than writing this year—at least, so I’m tempted to say; but as I realize mid-sentence, I don’t know what that means. What common metric could make sense of the comparison? Still, it has the ring of truth.

It was a good y...

5 months ago
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Yes, and…

This post is the third in an accidental mini-series on creativity, which started out derivative, took a turn through the need for a certain stupidity, and now goes slightly mad.

The accident is apt, in context: Kentridge writes in praise o...

5 months ago
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An Essential Stupidity

I discovered William Kentridge by erroneous inference and epistemic luck.

Memory said: “This name has come up more than once in recent weeks, in venues that review art exhibitions.” Reason listened, argued: “He must have an exhibition, so...

6 months ago
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    MIT philosopher; would-be self-help guru; master of the semi-colon; podcast: bit.ly/-five-q; substack: bit.ly/-ksetiya; book: bit.ly/-life-is-hard-ks

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